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Why should the U.S. public accept the yardstick JacobWeisberg offered us for "measuring the Clinton foreign-contributions scandal" in his defense of the Democrats, "Does Everybody Do It?"
That yardstick is too conservative, say critics, because it was instituted when the Dow stood at about 2,300, compared with today's 7,600.
A yardstick I watch on a daily basis is the stock price.
"General Pevez Musharraf has suddenly become an overnight celebrity and a 'yardstick' of general knowledge for Americans and may well become the factor to decide who will be America's next president," began a front-page report from Washington on Monday.
More specifically, using some level of mtDNA divergence as a yardstick for species boundaries ignores the low precision with which coalescence of mtDNA predicts phylogenetic divergence at nuclear genes (Hudson and Turelli 2003).